The latest evidence challenging Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s repeated demands for more voter fraud prosecutions comes from an unlikely source: fellow Republican Dave Yost, the state’s former attorney general. The information is found in a new online database — Ohio Crime Statistics Dashboard — that shows for the first time how many of the […]
SPRINGFIELD — It’s been a golden autumn week in Ohio as many celebrated some of its happy traditions. In Circleville, the 119th Pumpkin Show opened this past Wednesday. And in nearby Deer Creek State Park, people readied for the annual Halloween Campout, decorating campsites with fake skeletons, ghouls, graves and other spooky stuff. But not […]
An Ohio village won’t have to consider the proposal from a new data center after putting a moratorium in place, according to a unanimous ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court. The unanimous decision released this week by the state’s highest court said that the village of Lordstown’s leaders were allowed to stop the process of […]
There are some peculiar dynamics at play in Ohio’s race for U.S. Senate between Republican incumbent Jon Husted and his Democratic challenger Sherrod Brown. What’s a senator who is running for reelection in a state his party has controlled for most of close to four decades to do when voters think the state and country […]
One side effect of the attack ad being promoted by Ohio Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy is that it’s now bringing attention to the inspirational American success story embodied by his opponent Dr. Amy Acton and the adversity she overcame. By now, nearly everyone in the country has seen or heard about the Ramaswamy […]
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Israeli parliamentary elections are being held on Tuesday, the first since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack and Israel’s subsequent assault on Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is currently embroiled in a corruption scandal in Israel, is up for reelection. On Friday, after two Israeli soldiers were killed at a checkpoint near Hebron, just […]
Serbia’s longtime leader Aleksander Vučić has been swept out of power by a historic student-led opposition movement against Vučić’s right-wing Serbian Progressive Party. Candidates from the Student List, who are not students themselves but largely first-time politicians selected by student-led popular assemblies, won a majority of seats in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, marking a seismic shift […]
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won a record fourth term in office, defeating far-right challenger Flávio Bolsonaro by 4 million votes in a runoff election on Sunday. Flávio Bolsonaro is the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who remains under house arrest for plotting a coup against Lula four years ago. The […]
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wins Historic Fourth Term as President, Longtime Serbian Leader Vučić Concedes Defeat to Student-Led Movement, French Police Arrest More Than 1,300 People During Saturday Protests, Thousands of Protesters March in Italian Cities on Saturday, Israeli Forces Exact Collective Punishment on Hebron in the Occupied West Bank, Eight Palestinians […]
At least 59 people have died in ICE custody since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the highest number in more than a decade. Many deaths have been linked to medical neglect, including four of five recent deaths at California’s Adelanto Processing Center, according to a 2026 report by the state attorney general. […]
Brazilian voters are heading to the polls on Sunday for the presidential runoff between incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and far-right Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, with polls showing a tight race that will decide whether Brazil remains led by the left or joins the right-wing surge across Latin America. We speak to reporter Laís […]
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